The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
—George Bernard Shaw
"Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in progress.
"Life happens in small stages. The quantum leaps in life — great new promotions, stunning losses — even when they happen, take a lot of growing into if we are to become what they exact in us.
"Because change is of the essence of life, we know that anything is possible. The only thing we don't know is what it will do to us. 'Change is the constant,' Christina Baldwin wrote, 'the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.' All we really need to learn to do is to accept the present with open arms and let it do what it must to us.
"Nothing is stable in life. Nothing can be taken for granted. Nothing is static. Everything goes on changing. Sometimes in great, bold, striking ways. Sometimes in tiny little incremental changes that sneak up on us unaware — like weight and height and age. Don't be afraid of becoming different than you are — just be sure you enjoy the gifts of each and every stage as well as bemoan its burdens.
"Life just goes on demanding new life from us all the time.
"The spiritual task is to keep measuring the shades of difference that are all around us in life and keep adjusting to them."
